Word: characterization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During its 26-year run, 3,080,025 tourists and Angelenos paid (1959 top: $4.50) to see the show, jeer its four sneering villains, cheer its seven winning heroes. The customers also downed 5,700,000 bottles of free beer, ate 3,000,000 sandwiches. A sort of Everylush that...
Throughout the game. a character looking like an aging water boy strode up and down before the Syracuse bench. He wore a dark blue school shirt and a baseball cap pulled low over his close-cropped grey hair, and he barely came to some of the players' shoulders. But...
The Last Angry Man (Columbia), the hero of Gerald Green's cinemadaptation of his bestselling novel, is a cranky, kindly, old-fashioned family doctor with the sort of character that practice makes perfect. Dr. Sam Abelman (Paul Muni) lives and works in one of the worst neighborhoods in Brooklyn...
But even as these brave words were appearing in print, King and Cudlipp were taking stock-and making changes designed to revive the Mirror's appeal to youth. Out last week went the Page One slogan that the Mirror had used for 14 years: "Forward with the People." Out...
It is not long before the reader is benumbed and desperate, like a man trapped at a cocktail party by a character who insists on reciting everything he knows about textile mills, adultery and elephant hunting.